The absence of a bass player ...

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.
 Mark Lanegan

Quotes from the same author

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.
 Mark Lanegan
You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
 Mark Lanegan
I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.
 Mark Lanegan